Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape

Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape

In celebration of his 300th year, a definitive survey of Capability Brownâ€™s most famous gardens and landscapes in Britain. Widely acknowledged as the most influential landscape designer of his age, Lancelot "Capability" Brown was to England what Frederick Law Olmsted was to Americaâ€”responsible for shaping the very ideal of the nationâ€™s parkland. Brownâ€™s ambition was to bring out of a landscape the best of its potential rather than impose his own ideas upon it. His designs are organic, weaving gestures of color and perspective into the features that the country already afforded. So natural are his designs, and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them, that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and parklandsâ€”as much as the houses themselvesâ€”would become icons of British country life. Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth, this remarkable book illuminates fifteen of Brownâ€™s most celebrated landscapes. To love the great English estates is to love the settings with which Brown surrounded themâ€”from idyllic parklands at Milton and Broadlands to structured landscapes around iconic houses at Blenheim, Burghley, Wakefield, and Chatsworth. With photography commissioned for the book, and including rarely seen archival drawings that shed light on Brownâ€™s process, this book serves as a guide to Britainâ€™s most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation.
Country USA
Brand Rizzoli
Manufacturer Rizzoli
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 44604284
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780847848836

Country	USA
Brand	Rizzoli
Manufacturer	Rizzoli
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	44604284
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2016-10-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780847848836

Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape

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